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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and to help each other protect the health of our communities, all concerts and events at The Knoll are canceled for the Spring Quarter. However, we are offering live streaming concerts and seminars every week, so please check our list of events and join us online! To learn more about Stanford’s response, visit: http://healthalerts.stanford.edu.

Join us in Zoom for a virtual listening party of new works for violin/viola and electronics performed and recorded by Karen Bentley Pollick. Mantautas Krukauskas will send live electronics from his home studio in Vilnius (LT) and Karen will join us from San Pancho, Nayarit (MX) along with composer John Henry Kreitler (KY) to answer questions at the end of the session.
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What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well -- to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? These are the questions addressed in Ge Wang's new book, ARTFUL DESIGN (check it out: https://artful.design/).

What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.